Ready for an education in local botany? Mifuneyama Rakuen should make your list of places to visit, located 1.8 mi (2.8 km) from central Takeo. Want to stretch your legs some more? Head to Maruyama Park and Baba’s Wild Cherry Blossom, both nearby.
If you're planning a bit of sightseeing during your trip, head to Yutoku Inari Shrine— just one of the landmarks located 0.8 mi (1.2 km) from central Kashima.
Karatsu Castle is just one of the landmarks located 4.9 mi (7.8 km) from central Karatsu, so you might want to stop by for a few pics during your trip.
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Oriental Hotel Fukuoka Hakata Station
10/10 Excellent
"We enjoyed our stay. Hotel is clean and the location is superb. Literally outside Hakata station. Breakfast is good but need to change sometimes, the food is good but if you eat same breakfast everyday the whole time you stay you will get tired of eating the same kind of food. "
"A low key modern Japanese style hotel with the perfect setup for a longer stay by those who prefer to be self sufficient travelers. The Japanese sized hotel rooms include a large combined washer/dryer unit for which the laundry detergent is provided for. They also come with a small fridge, a microwave, a small kitchen sink and kitchen counter. Additionally, a kitchen kit, consisting of an induction hotplate, a medium sized pot, a knife, a ladle, a cutting board and a scrubbing pad can be obtained from the front desk.
Most, if not all, of the department stores adjacent to the hotel have wonderful grocery stores in their basement level, with, as is typical in Japan, everything already beautifully packaged in small sizes appropriate for Japanese small kitchens as well as lots of fully prepared meals.
The hotel also offers a breakfast buffet in their ground floor restaurant, which, though with a smaller offering than that at some other hotels, still makes for a fine Japanese style breakfast with a rotating assortment of Japanese breakfast items.
Note that for the longer stays, the rooms are made up once weekly, with an included daily towel exchange service. For our culturally immersive travelling style, this hotel perfectly met our needs.
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